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The European War 

in the Light 
of Bible Prophecy 

Showing who is responsible for it 

and what the outcome 

will be 



Written for the Busy Man 



GEORGE H. GUDEBROD 



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The European War 



in the Light oi 



Bible Prophecy 



GEORGE H. GUDEBROD 

44 Court Street Brooklyn, N. Y. 



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Copyright, 1914 

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44 Court Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



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THE whole world is shocked and amazed at The 
the sudden outbreak of the terrible European fVorld 
War. Each nation loudly proclaims that it at 
did not want war, but preferred peace, and that JVar 
war was forced upon it against its wish. It is fair to 
assume that in this, all are sincere, for no nation 
would willingly enter into so gigantic a struggle, 
knowing the indescribable misery and Incalculable loss 
it would incur, to say nothing of the possibility of 
national ruin for all time. 

Each nation gives a good reason for being in the 
fight; /. e., the reason appears sufficient from their in- 
dividual point of view. Each shows where its rights 
or honor or interests were jeopardized so that the man 
with an open and unprejudiced mind is confused and 
bewildered in attempting to know whom to blame 
and what it all means. 

For the purpose of this article, it matters not what 
the immediate cause was or who was responsible for 
starting the war, but rather what does it mean and 
what will be the benefit to mankind when it is ended? 
Current publications, with a reputation for sober and 
sound thinking, contain articles asking if it is evidence 
of the breakdown of Christianity and the collapse of 
all things heretofore considered stable and secure. 



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Some writers comment jocosely on the fact that each 
nation is appeahng to God to help them in their right- 
eous cause and wonder which side God is fighting 
with. 

To those who believe that God lives and rules 
the question arises : Is God taking any part in this 
great war, and if so, how and with whom? It is im- 
possible to answer this question without reference to 
the Bible, for we believe that it is the only source of 
information this world has with regard to God's 
plans. The Bible pretends to speak of the future of 
this world and claims that all Scripture was given by 
inspiration from God. Therefore, if it can be shown 
that is has correctly foretold events a hundred or a 
thousand years before they happened, it is worth 
while knowing what it has to say with regard to our 
day and generation. 

Nebuchad' In the second chapter of Daniel, we are told, Ncb- 

uezzcir s uchadnezzar has a dream which he forgets, but which 

Dream and Daniel reveals and interprets for him. In this dream 
Daniel s Nebuchadnezzar saw a great image, with a head of 
Inter- gold, breast and arms of silver, belly and thighs 
prelai'wn of brass, legs of iron, and feet part of iron and 
part of clay. V. 31 to 45. Daniel tells us that 
this image represents four great world kingdoms 
which will follow each other successively, and that 
Nebuchadnezzar represented the head of gold. His- 
tory shows that there have been four great world 
kingdoms, namely, Babylon, Medo Persia, Greece and 
Rome, and each was characterized by gold, silver, 
brass and iron. Babylon was called the golden king- 



dom because of its lavish use of gold by Nebuchad- 
nezzar, he having gone so far as to take the gold from 
the Jewish Tabernacle and appropriating it for his 
own use. 

Persia was noted for its great use of silver 
in its arts, while the shields and helmets of the Gre- 
cian Army, under Alexander the Great, were made of 
brass, and we read of the iron legions of Rome whose 
Emperor wore a crown made of iron, which can be 
seen today in the Museum in Paris. Rome was 
divided into the Eastern and Western Empires, 
corresponding vvith the two legs of iron seen in 
the image. Finally, Rome was broken up or divided 
into divers nations, some of which remain Imperial- 
istic, while some have become Democratic, v/hich cor- 
responds to the feet part of iron and part of clay, 
partly strong and partly weak; partly Imperialistic 
and partly Democratic. 

The strength of a Government lies in the ability 
of one man to have absolute rule, provided he is wise 
and righteous in his commands. The weakness of a 
Government lies in the power of the masses to form- 
ulate its own laws as in a Republican form of govern- 
ment. It is now becoming evident that, more and 
more, our politicians are catering to the masses and 
are advocating that any and all supposedly objection- 
able, and even new laws, be submitted to the people. 
This is what our own statesman, Theodore Roose- 
velt, advocated, and doubtless this helped to defeat 
him. 

The great majority of people never have been and 



never will be able to say what laws will be best for 
the whole nation, because the majority of voting peo- 
ple are not sufficiently wise in matters of government 
to permit them to demand that laws shall or shall not 
be enacted. There always will be unscrupulous party 
leaders who will advocate laws which will appeal to 
the masses, which, it is known in advance, will work 
injury in the end. These acts are put before the peo- 
ple for the purpose of catching the so-called labor 
vote, which might more properly be called the ignor- 
ant vote, not because they are grossly ignorant, but be- 
cause of their lack of governmental knowledge. Here- 
in lies the weakness of a Democratic form of govern- 
ment; It offers an opportunity for ignorance in such 
matters to rule. Such Governments may be strong 
financially and physically, but will be weak adminis- 
tratively. They are partly strong and partly weak. 
The The figure in the dream image began with gold and 

Object ends with iron and clay, showing a decline in values, 
of and speaks of the decrease in the absolute power and 
Govern- magnificence of the four kingdoms. Each succeeding 
menls kingdom had its power more or less circumscribed 
until today the Kings of Europe have less authority 
than ever before in the history of the world, so much 
so that it is commonly reported and believed by many, 
that this war will make an end of ruling Kings, but, 
according to God's word, this will not be so. The 
metals in the image also speak of the decline in the 
value of these Governments in the matter of protect- 
ing and caring for their people. Governments were 
originally created for the purpose of conserving their 



subjects. 'I'his has been their aim, but this war shows 
that they have failed miserably. Today, six of the 
most highly civilized nations of Europe are flying at 
each other with the most deadly and destructive im- 
plements of war, and, in the most devilish manner 
imaginable, killing and wounding millions of precious 
lives, breaking the hearts of millions more, and, as 
a full measure, taxing, not only those who fight, but 
those who are robbed of their support by the killing 
of fathers, brothers and sons. 

How aptly the Prophet has characterized these 
Governments: partly strong and partly weak, strong 
to destroy but too weak to prevent the burden and 
misery of war! We boast of our learning, science 
and art, but all our libraries, inventions, paintings 
and cathedrals have not put into the heart of man a 
love for his brother. By our Inventions we have 
learned to fly in the air and to sail under the sea, but 
only to drop bombs on helpless people and blow up 
powerful ships, v>'hose only duty is destruction. Of 
what use have the fine cathedrals been these past one 
thousand years? True, they speak of Him \vho v/as 
the Prince of Peace, and who said, "Resist not evil," 
and "Love thy neighbor as thyself," but where Is the 
man or nation who has obeyed His command? Some 
of our noted preachers of the Gospel of the Prince of 
Peace, Instead of preaching peace, openly advocate 
by voice and pen, the building of more of these devil- 
ish engines of destruction on the foolish ground that 
the more such engines a nation has the more likely it 
will be to have peace. 



It is true that great armies and navies hold in 
check the weaker nations. However, this does not 
assure peace. The important thing is that these 
preachers are not true to their mission. Their remedy 
is no remedy at all, but in the end makes war a 
thousand times more terrible and dreadful. It is 
building against God's plans, instead of for them. 

To show the utter foolishness, or rather, 
ignorance of such preaching, it is only necessary 
to point to what the Prince of Peace Himself said: 
"Resist not evil," and "If thine enemy strike thee on 
the right cheek, turn to him also the left." With 
their mouth these preachers pray God to bring about 
peace, and with their pen they encourage nations to 
prepare for more devilish fighting. With their mouth 
they praise God for his perfect law and wisdom, and 
with their pen they try to defeat what they profess to 
believe. 

In the sixth chapter of Ephesians God has giv^en 
us a picture of the kind of armour a preacher should 
pray for. First of all he tells them they should "stand, 
having your loins girt about with truth, and having 
on the breastplate of righteousness, and your feet 
shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace 
above all, taking the shield of faith wherewith ye 
shall be able to quench all the fiei-y darts of the wicked 
and take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the 
spirit, which is the word of God." 

It is difficult to find in this anything which looks 
like a battleship, a submarine, a Zeppelin, or a large 
standing army with rapid-fire guns. 



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and it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand 
upon the feet as a man and a man's heart was given 
to it." V. 4. 

Babylon was surely lion-hearted and had lofty as- 
pirations and swift as eagle wings to take advantage 
of its opportunities to enlarge its power and dominion 
by subduing surrounding nations. It was the first 
great world empire, but soon lost its power and glory, 
i. e., lost its lion strength and became only a man, and 
was conquered by the Medes and Persians. 

The second beast was "like to a bear, and it raised 
up itself on one side and it had three ribs in the mouth 
of it, between the teeth of it, and they said thus unto 
it, arise and devour much flesh." V. 5. 

In the Medo Persian Empire the Medes were at 
first the stronger, but soon the Persian element domi- 
nated by conquering Susiana, Lydia and Asia Minor, 
and then they conquered Babylon. The bear 
lifted up on one side speaks of the growing strength 
of the Persian element, while the three ribs in the 
mouth of it represents the three conquered provinces. 
The Medes and Persians were more ruthless in their 
wars than Babylon had been; it devoured much flesh. 
"After this I beheld and lo, another like a leopard, 
which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl. 
The beast had also four heads and dominion was 
given to it." V. 6. 

Three hundred years before Christ, Alexander the 
Great consolidated the Grecian States, then turned 
eastward, and in a remarkably short time, for those 
days, he conquered the Persians and proclaimed him- 



self Emperor of the World. His success warped his 
better judgment and through riotous and licentious 
living he died when only thirty years of age, and his 
kingdom was divided amongst his four generals. In 
the eleventh chapter of Daniel we have more details 
of this kingdom. In the fourth verse we are told that 
"this kingdom should be broken and divided toward 
the four winds of Heaven (four Kings or the four 
generals) and not to his posterity, and that this king- 
dom shall be plucked up even for others beside those." 
Thus the four winged and four headed leopard speaks 
of the swift rise and fall of Alexander the Great and 
his four generals, who, while not related to him, 
divided his kingdom among them, and subsequently 
lost it to others. 

This brings us to the fourth beast. "After this 1 
saw a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible and strong 
exceedingly, and it had great iron teeth. It devoured 
and broke in pieces and stamped the residue with the 
feet of it, and it was diverse from all the beasts that 
were before it, and it had ten horns. I considered the 
horns, and behold there came up among them another 
little horn, before whom there were three of the first 
horns plucked up by the roots, and in this horn were 
eyes like of a man, and mouth speaking great things." 
V. 7-8. 

Daniel has told us that the fourth beast was the 
fourth kingdom. As Rome was the fourth kingdom, 
then this beast represents Rome. In the thirteenth 
chapter of Book of Revelation the Apostle John, 
looking backward over the past centuries, sees a beast 



The only kind of army sanctioned by God's 
word is a Salvation army, like the one General Booth 
organized. This army has no guns or swords, and 
yet it goes among the vilest men and women and 
makes of them the loveliest saints. What a mockery 
this army is to the armies now at war, trying to bring 
about peace by wholesale murder. 

Preachers should be the leaders and advisers of 
God's word, but through the weakness of the flesh and 
a lack of fidelity to God, many have joined hands 
with the politicians, with the result that most of the 
world has believed great armaments to be the best 
guarantee for peace. In one of Theodore Roosevelt's 
recent articles on the lessons of the war, he points to 
Belgium as an example of what may happen to a 
country which is not prepared to resist an enemy — 
seemingly forgetting that Belgium was as well pre- 
pared as she could afford to be, and in addition she 
had the backing of England and France, all of which 
failed to prevent war. This war proves that great 
preparations for war do not insure peace. When a 
man buys a gun he usually uses it. If the world could 
only be made to turn its guns into plow-shares and its 
swords Into pruning hooks, which God has promised 
will one day be done, there would be fewer wars and 
far less dreadful. 

Let us return to the Prophet Daniel, which by the Govern- 
way, was given B. C. 600. In the second chapter of ments 
Daniel we have a picture of the four great world king- as Seen 
doms represented by the figure of a man made of the by God. 
earth's materials: Gold, silver, brass, iron and clay. 



It is, therefore, fair to say tliat this figure represents 
these Governments as man sees them. Man only 
sees the material values of his government in his con- 
quests and enlargements. This is so today. In the 
seventh chapter of Daniel, God's prophet has a dream 
and vision, and he sees four great beasts arise out of 
the sea. The sea in Scripture imagery stands for the 
unorganized mass of mankind. If this is objected to, 
it remains true that the four kingdoms referred to in 
the prophecy all bordered upon the shores of the 
Great Mediterranean Sea, and that was undoubtedly 
the sea Daniel saw in his vision. Daniel 7, 1-9 and 
15-28. 

He tells us that these four beasts represent the 
four kingdoms which shall arise out of the earth 
(V. 17), and that the fourth beast is the fourth 
kingdom on the earth. V. 23. These four beasts, 
then, represent the four world Governments as God 
sees them, and correspond to the four world king- 
doms Nebuchadnezzar saw in the image of gold, 
silver, brass and iron. 

While man sees his work in enlarging and main- 
taining his governments with a view only to the ma- 
terial gain made or the satisfying of personal or 
national pride and ambition, in the seventh chapter of 
Daniel, God's prophet sees these kingdoms as four 
ravenous wild beasts, preying on, crushing and de- 
vouring each other. They are pictured to us in their 
principal features, much as our present-day cartoonist 
would do. The first was "like a lion and with eagle's 
wings. I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked 



drawing soldiers from all parts of the world, and at 
the same time, with a very much smaller navy, he is 
slowly destroying the English fleet. He has caused 
insurrections in some lands and caused unrest in 
others, the end of which is not yet, and the results of 
which may be very great. England says she is fight- 
ing for her life. This, then, is a death struggle; her 
predominating power may be taken aAvay, for great 
nations have lost their influence before now, and if 
the Kaiser, with his wonderful army, should win, 
which, we are free to confess, seems impossible, what 
more reasonable than that he be made the head of 
this new Roman Empire? However, someone some 
day will be chosen to fill that place. 

We will not now attempt an outline of other events After the 
which it is prophesied will transpire after the Roman Roman 
Empire, with its ten kingdoms, is established, except Empire is 
to point out that out of the ten kingdoms three will Rezived 
be plucked up by the roots, that is, three of the ten 
will be disposed of; also the Jews who are now, and 
hav^e been, agitating the possession of Palestine again 
as a nation, are now going back in large numbers. 
They will organize as a nation, and a King will arise 
who is called in Scripture the Anti-Christ, whom many 
of the Jews Vvill believe to be tlieir long-looked-for 
Messiah. 

He will do many wonderful things, so that 
many shall believe him to be a God, and in order to 
prevent the spread of his power and influence, at first 
the revived Roman Empire will make an alliance with 
this Jewish King which will soon be broken oft, and 



then the Kings of the North, South, East and West 
will sweep into the land of Palestine to make war 
against him, and then the stone cut without hands, 
spoken of in Daniel 2, 34-35, which is none other 
than the Lord Jesus Christ at His second coming, will 
smite the Kings of the earth and their armies, and 
they will be scattered like the chaff of the summer's 
threshing floor, and be carried away by the wind, so 
that no place shall be found for them. That, and 
not the present war, will be the great battle of Arma- 
geddon, after which Christ will set up His kingdom 
on the earth, which will fill the whole earth with its 
first righteous government. Daniel 2, 44. 

The Scriptures plainly indicate that in the latter 
end of man's rule on earth there will appear three 
prominent persons. The head of the new Roman 
Empire, or emperor of the confederated kings of 
Europe, called the "beast"; the anti-Christ, or false 
prophet among the Jews in Palestine; and the As- 
syrian, or King of the North. These three represent 
the three divisions of mankind. Mans Government 
is today best illustrated by eastern Europe, which we 
have seen will be reorganized into the new Roman 
Empire, called the beast. The Religious element in 
man will be represented in the false prophet or anti- 
Christ among the Jews, while the unbelieving or bar- 
barian element in man will be represented by the King 
of the North, through his alliance with the eastern 
nations. 

From this it is not difficult to see how the Roman 
Emperor will first make an alliance with the false 



which corresponds to this beast, and is described as 
"like unto a leopard with feet like a bear and with a 
mouth like a lion." Rev. 13, 1-2. Daniel was look- 
ing forward and sees the lion first, then the bear, then 
the leopard. How consistent God's word is. In the 
twelfth verse of the seventh chapter of Daniel we are 
told that these kingdoms, while having their dominion 
taken away, yet their lives were prolonged. This re- 
mains true today. 

Rome overthrew Greece about fifty years before 
Christ, and boasted of the fact that they never des- 
troyed a civilization after conquering it, but took 
from them everything of value, out of which they 
created the greatest empire the world has ever 

known. 

There is no name given this fourth beast. It is un- 
like anything the world has seen, dreadful and terrible. 
The present European War, more than any other, can 
be truly called beastly, dreadful and terrible. The in- 
vention of gunpowder and guns has made former wars 
look like child's play compared to present methods. 
Today this beast not only fights on land but on the 
water, in the air, under the water, and in the most 
destructive manner imaginable. How wonderfully 
accurate and careful the prophets were not to give the 
fourth beast a name, and yet include in it all the fea- 
tures of the other beasts, thus cementing the meaning 
of both prophets. 

Rome was an exceedingly strong government and 
was dreaded by all the rest of the known world. The 
iron teeth of this beast speak of the iron legions of 



Rome, and may well mean our present guns, bombs, 
battleships and submarines, tearing to pieces not only 
human lives, but the very earth. It devoured, that is, 
took in many other nations, then Rome broke in 
pieces. Europe today is only the Roman Empire 
broken up, and now note, the feet of this beast 
stamped the residue of it. The feet of this beast were 
the feet of a bear. The bear was the beast represent- 
ing the second empire. Russia was a part of the 
second empire, and is today represented in the world 
of nations by a bear. Peter the Great, of Russia, died 
in 1725. In his will he wrote: — 
Russian "The Russian nation must be constantly on a war 

Plans of footing to keep soldiers warlike and in good condi- 
Peter the tion. No rest m.ust be allowed, except for the pur- 
Great pose of relieving the State finances, recruiting the 
army, or biding the favourable moment for attack. 
By these means peace is made subservient to war, and 
war to peace, in the interest of the aggrandisement 
and increasing prosperity of Russia. . . . 

"No opportunity must be lost of taking part in 
the affairs and disputes of Europe, especially in those 
of Germany, which from its vicinity is the one of most 
direct interest to us. . . . 

"We must keep steadily extending our frontiers — 
northward along the Baltic, and southward along the 
shores of the Black Sea. 

"We must progress as much as possible in the di- 
rection of Constantinople and India. He who can get 
possession of these places is the real ruler of the 
world. With this view we must provoke constant 



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quarrels, at one time with Turkey and at another with 
Persia. We must establish wharves and docks in the 
Euxine, and by degrees make ourselves masters of 
that sea as well as of the Baltic, which is a doubly 
important element in the success of our plan. We 
must hasten the downfall of Persia, push on into the 
Persian Gulf, and, if possible, re-establish the ancient 
commercial intercourse with the Levant through 
Syria, and force our way into the Indies, which are 
the storehouses of the world. Once there, we can 
dispense with English gold. 

"Moreover, we must take pains to establish and 
maintain an intimate union with Austria, apparently 
countenancing her schemes for future aggrandise- 
ment in Germany, and all the while secretly rousing 
the jealousy of the minor States against her. By this 
way we must bring it to pass that one or the other 
party shall seek aid from Russia, and thus we shall 
exercise a sort of protectorate over the country, which 
will pave the way for future supremacy. 

"We must make the House of Austria interested 
in the expulsion of the Turks from Europe, and we 
must neutralise its jealousy at the capture of Constan- 
tinople, either by pre-occupying it with a war with the 
old European States or by allowing it a share of the 
spoils, which we can afterwards resume at our leisure. 

"We must collect round our house, as round a cen- 
tre, all the detached sections of Greeks which are 
scattered abroad in Hungary, Turkey, and South 
Poland. We must make them look to us for support, 
and then, by establishing beforehand a sort of ecclesi- 



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astical supremacy, we shall pave the way for Univer- 
sal Sovereignty. 

"When Sweden is ours, Persia vanquished, Poland 
subjugated, Turkey conquered — when our armies are 
united, and the Euxine and Baltic are in the posses- 
sion of our ships, then we must make separate and 
secret overtures, first to the Court of Versailles, and 
then to that of Vienna, to share with them the do- 
minion of the world. If either of them accept our 
propositions, which is certain to happen if their am- 
bition and self-interest are properly worked upon, 
we must make use of one to annihilate the other; this 
done, we have only to destroy the remaining one by 
finding a pretext for a quarrel, the issue of which 
cannot be doubtful, as Russia will then be already in 
absolute possession of the East, and of the best part 
of Europe. 

"Should the improbable case happen of both re- 
jecting the propositions of Russia, then our policy 
will be to set one against the other, and make them 
tear each other to pieces. Russia must then watch for 
and seize the favourable moment and pour her already 
assembled hosts into Germany, while two immense 
fleets, laden with Asiatic hordes, and convoyed by the 
armed squadrons of the Euxine and the Baltic, set 
sail simultaneously from the Sea of Azoff and the 
harbour of Archangel; sweeping along the Mediter- 
ranean and the Atlantic they will overrun France on 
the one side, while Germany is overpowered on the 
other. When these countries are fully conquered, the 
rest of Europe must fall easily and with a struggle 



under our yoke. Thus Europe can and must be subju- 
gated." 

This is a part of the will of Peter the Great as 
copied from "Russia" in Bohn's Standard Library. 
In this connection it is interesting to know what 
Napoleon I. thought of Russia. While a captive at 
St. Helena he expressed himself in the following 
words : — 

"In the course of a few years Russia will have 
Constantinople, part of Turkey, and all Greece. This 
I hold to be as certain as if it had already taken place ; 
all the cajolery and flattery that Alexander practised 
upon me was to gain my consent to effect that object. 
I would not give it, foreseeing that the equilibrium 
of Europe would be destroyed. In the natural course 
of things Turkey must fall to Russia ; the Powers it 
would injure, and who would oppose it, are England, 
France, Austria, and Prussia. Now, as to Austria, 
it would be very easy to secure her assistance by giving 
her Servia and other provinces bordering on the Aus- 
trian dominions, reaching near to Constantinople. 
The only hypothesis that France and England will 
ever be allied with anything like sincerity will be to 
prevent this; but even this alliance will not avail. 
France, England, and Prussia united cannot prevent 
it. Russia and Austria can at any time effect it; once 
mistress of Constantinople, Russia gets all the com- 
merce of the Mediterranean, becomes a great naval 
power, and God knows what may happen. The ob- 
ject of my invasion of Russia was to prevent this, by 
the interposition between her and Turkey of a new 



State which 1 meant to call mto existence as a barrier 

to her eastern encroachments." 

p • To those who are famihar with Russian pohtics 

J , f it is clear that she has been clawing and snarling on 
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Hundrel '"^ ^° break through. In 1726, one year after the 

Tr ^ death of Peter the Great, Russia made an alliance 
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with Austria, and a treaty with China in 1727. She 

had war with the Ottoman Empire in 1768, and with 
the Turks in 1787. In 1796 Russia was defeated by 
Persia, and in turn defeated them in 1804. In 1805 
she joins a coalition against France, and is Invaded 
by Napoleon in 1812. In 1815 the Holy Alliance 
is formed with Austria and Prussia, and for thirty- 
four years she remains peaceful, but assists Austria 
in subduing Hungary in 1849, ^^^ ''^ ^^53 she again 
declares war against Turkey, and is in turn attacked 
by England and France in 1854. In 1856 she fights 
with Bokhara and in 1877 she again wars with Tur- 
key. In 1885 she has trouble with the Afghans, and in 
1886 interferes with Bulgaria. She makes a treaty in 
1896 with China and in 1898 she leases Port Arthur 
from China and proposes universal peace in 1899, °"^y 
to begin war with Japan, in 1904, over Manchuria. 
In 19 1 2 she appropriates $215,000,000 for her navy, 
and in 19 14 she mobilizes her entire army on the 
Austro-German frontier and refused to explain why, 
or stop when requested to do so by the Kaiser. 
The However wrong the Kaiser may be, he surely 

Kaiser and Is right when he says that Russia is the peril of east- 
Go^ em Europe, and that with her alliance with China 



and the railroads she is building and controls, it is 
not only a Russian peril, but a yellow peril that con- 
fronts Europe. We believe the Kaiser is also right 
when he says the alliance England made with Russia 
is an "unnatural" one, and it is our opinion that Eng- 
land will soon again be fighting Russia, just as she did 
in the Crimean War, in 1854, in order to prevent her 
overrunning Europe. We believe this because God 
has said that in the latter end the Kings of the West 
will contend with the Kings of the East. In this con- 
nection it is worth noting that France has paved the 
way for herself to also oppose Russia. The two na- 
tions have nothing in common. France has loaned 
many millions of dollars to Russia to help build 
up her army and navy and her railroads into China. 
It is now reported that France needs the money loaned 
to Russia to carry on her own war. She may yet have 
to fight Russia to get it. 

No well-informed or sound-thinking man be- 
lieves that Russia refused to stop mobilizing because 
she wanted to help Servia. She refused because 
she knew she had the backing of England and 
France and the help of Japan, if need be, and saw in 
this her opportunity to accomplish her heart's desire. 
Russia, more than any other nation, is responsible for 
this war. The Kaiser offered peace if she stopped 
mobilizing on his frontier. When Russia refused the 
Kaiser knew what it meant, even if the rest of Europe 
did not. The word of God is right: the feet of the 
beast, which are the feet of a bear, are stamping on 
Europe today. 



The Kaiser has a reputation for being a devout 
churchman. He has said on several occasions he 
beheved himself appointed of God. Some years ago 
he said he felt he was called to do two things in his 
career. One was to oppose socialism, which was 
anarchy against governments ; the other to uphold the 
Pope of Rome, because the Pope stood for God and 
the Bible, and because unbelief was anarchy against 
God. He believed the Pope had more influence for 
peace than any other man in Europe. The history 
of the world shows man must be held in check to pre- 
vent him from breaking established law. Our laws, 
our police forces, our armies and navies prove this. 
Therefore, fundamentally, the Kaiser is right; man 
must be governed. However, the fact is, God has 
taken no hand in the politics of this world since the 
dispersion of the Jews. 

The Bible clearly teaches that God has never in- 
terfered with the governments of this world except 
when His people, Israel, were in their own land of 
Palestine as a nation. For two thousand five hun- 
dred years, the Jews have been scattered abroad 
among the nations of the earth, and history does not 
show that God has interfered in any way with the 
world's governments. During that time God did 
not prevent His Son being crucified, nor did He pre- 
vent the terrible persecution of the early Christians. 
Pie is not now protecting the famous and beautiful 
cathedrals erected to His name, or the Christian 
people in Belgium. The reason why is given in Rev. 
6, lo and 1 1. 



Our good President, Woodrow Wilson, desig- 
nated a day of prayer, in which all Christians should 
pray to God to bring about peace. No doubt millions 
of prayers were offered in this and other countries on 
that day, and every day since, but as yet no answer 
has been given. The war rages as fiercely as the 
weather and arms will permit, and justly so, for God 
can not be unfaithful to His word. He said: "love 
thy neighbor," "thou shalt not kill," "resist not evil," 
"live at peace with all men." And the only condition 
on which God will answer prayer is: "If ye abide In 
Me and My words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye 
will and it shall be done unto you." John 15, 7. 

God can not break His own law, and so long as 
man refuses to obey His law, he must take the con- 
sequences, especially when they are self-inflicted. 

A very pathetic letter appeared in one of the daily 
papers by a mother bemoaning the fact that God had 
not answered the prayer of this nation, and asked: 
"Have we lost faith?" The answer is, "faith with- 
out works is dead." It is not a question of faith at 
all. There can be no faith where there is no obedience. 
Faith comes by hearing and obeying the word of God. 

God's day is not yet at hand. The truth is, God 
foresaw what would be the result of man's efforts to 
govern himself apart from His law; this was revealed 
to the prophets. The Kaiser and the nations of the 
earth are simply the actors in the great world drama, 
playing the role necessary to fulfill the prophetic word 
of God. 

The Kaiser's record is one of peace, and his pro- 



fessed desire was to go down In liistory as the peace- 
ful Kaiser. During his reign he has had no wars. 
For forty-four years Germany has had none; in the 
same time England, France, Russia, Turkey, Italy 
and the United States have each been at war one or 
more times. It is true Germany has taken by force 
some territory, but by comparison with what other 
nations have taken, her annexations have been small. 

The fact that the Kaiser perfected his army to a 
point far beyond that of any other nation, only 
proves that he was wise enough to see the need of it. 
The present war proves that he was right. Six nations 
fly at him for no better reason than to check his influ- 
ence and commercial growth. No well-informed man 
believes that this war was caused because a Slav mur- 
dered a Teuton. Such murders are of frequent oc- 
currence. 

The real reasons for the war are that Germany 
knew what was In the mind of the other nations 
to do to her, and when Russia refused to stop mobiliz- 
ing the Kaiser knew he could not afford to wait. 
Russia saw her opportunity to break through 
her borders. England saw her opportunity to check 
Germany's commercial growth. France saw her op- 
portunity to avenge her defeat of 1870 and regain 
Alsace and Lorraine. All are more or less to blame, 
but It Is clear to the unprejudiced mind that the Kaiser 
did not want or need war, for his people were pros- 
perous and were becoming more so every day. 

The truth Is, it was impossible for the nations to 
avert this war. The selfishness, greed and jealousy 



of each other, forced a condition which could not be 
adjusted except by a disastrous war. 

Our modern Prince of Peace, Andrew Carnegie, 
says he knows the Kaiser personally, and knows that 
he is a peace-loving inan. He probably felt sure of 
this before he spent his money on the Peace Palace. 

In the New York Times of November lo, 19 14, 
the Rev. Dr. Thomas C. Hall, Professor of 
Christian Ethics in the Union Theological Seminary, 
in a formal interview, says : — 

"Bernhardi's book, even though by some it has 
been taken as an indication of a warlike attitude on 
Germany's part, no more represents the feeling of the 
average German than Hobson represents sober Amer- 
ican opinion. If we were, which God forbid, to be 
dragged into a war with Japan by her attempting to 
dominate China, would it be fair to quote Mr. Hob- 
son as showing we all sought war with Japan? 

"There is no doubt that Russia is the real source 
of the trouble. She is pushing her Balkan policy, and 
once sure of the support of England she went to war 
to regain her prestige lost through the Japanese War, 
to avenge herself for what she considered a diplomatic 
defeat after the Balkan War, and to divert attention 
from the growing discontent within her own borders. 

"It was only a matter of time with her, and, as- 
sured of the assistance of the British Navy, she con- 
sidered her task of going through Austria to Con- 
stantinople an easy one. 

"To me it seems absurd to claim that Russia 
stands for liberty and civilization and Germany for 



slavery and barbarism, I know Russia, and I know 
Germany, and the Americans forget that Russia Is 
the power that wins if the Allies win. A victory for 
Russia means another world war for the control of 
the Mediterranean and for Persia and India. 

"Cut off as the United States is from direct con- 
tact with Germany, we know only what England 
teaches us and are missing the real emphasis of this 
war, which Is essentially a war to advance and main- 
tain the territorial ambitions of the Russian aristoc- 
racy fighting under the banner of pan-Slavism. 

"A victory for the Allies would be the betrayal of 
democracy, civilization and freedom." 
Russia Here is the opinion of a man whose business It is 

and to know facts. He says he knows, and his judgment 
Turkey is in accord with the facts and with God's word, so 
far as Russia is concerned. The wonder Is that the 
American people have so completely overlooked Rus- 
sia with her plans and past habits. However, it is 
not our purpose to take sides in this war, but only to 
show where history and prophecy meet, and state 
such facts as are compatible with the Bible. The 
thirty-eighth chapter of Ezekiel and also the thirty- 
ninth chapter, to the fourteenth verse, is a prophecy 
regarding Russia. Note the names of Mesheck and 
Tubal, two very ancient cities now called Moscow 
and Tobolsk. Also in the eleventh chapter of Daniel, 
fortieth to forty-fifth verses, we are told that the King 
of the North shall come against the Holy Land like 
a whirlwind with chariots and horsemen and many 
ships, and shall overflow the countries. 



Today Turkey owns Palestine, Before Russia 
can overflow Palestine she must drive Turkey out of 
Europe. It Is generally believed today that the sick 
man of Europe is about to see his finish, so far as 
living in Europe Is concerned. 

From these chapters we see Russia's aim Is pre- 
cisely what Peter the Great outlined, and what the 
prophet foretold twenty-live hundred years ago. Our Day 

There is a strong line of demarkation between and 
eastern and western Europe, which plainly corres- Genera- 
ponds with the two feet In the Image which Nebuchad- tion 
nezzar saw. Prophecy and history, therefore, make 
it clear that we are living In the time of the two feet 
of iron and clay. We have been able to check up 
prophecy and history to this point, and if there has 
been perfect agreement, as we see there has been, we 
are warranted In believing that the rest of the proph- 
ecy will come true. We are told that out of this 
present European situation, namely, the broken 
Roman Empire, there will arise ten kings, repre- 
sented by "the ten toes on the two feet." Daniel 2, 
42-44. 

Some of our best statesmen, here and in Europe, 
now claim that the only solution of this great war is 
a reorganization of the map of Europe with some 
sort of police duty supported by all of Europe. This 
seems to be the only logical solution of the problem. 
England, France, Germany and Russia are certainly 
too large and too powerful to be absorbed. It re- 
mains, therefore, for them to absorb the smaller na- 
tions, which will be drawn into the fight against 



their wish, and it is easy to see how Europe could be 
divided into ten kingdoms by having five kingdoms In 
the Eastern and five in the Western sphere. We do 
not care to venture a guess as to just how this will 
be accomplished. It is sufficient for us to know what 
the outcome will be. The present war, or one in the 
future, will result in ten kingdoms being formed, and 
they in turn will elect an eleventh King, namely, the 
"little horn" seen by Daniel to arise out of the ten 
horns, who will be the head of the Roman Empire, 
which we are told In Revelations 17-18 will be re- 
vived. "The beast that was, is not, yet shall be." 

Revelations 13, 3, also speaks of this revived 
Empire, /'. e., one head of the broken Roman Em- 
pire was wounded to death, but was healed, and all 
the world wondered after the beast. What a wonder 
It will be to see the Roman Empire revived. 
Roman In the New York Times of November 4, 19 14, 

Empire the Kaiser Is reported as having said to his Army: 
Revived "If we win, and we must win, a new Empire shall 
arise, more splendid than the world ever saw, a new 
Roman-German Empire which shall rule the world, 
and the world shall be happy." We are far from 
saying that this will or will not be so as a result of this 
war, but the Important fact Is that this Is what God 
has prophesied will come about, and is what Napoleon 
attempted to do one hundred years ago. At the pres- 
ent writing, November, 19 14, the Kaiser seems to 
have sufficient power to accomplish something along 
this line. So far he has managed to keep the fighting on 
the enemy's ground, although opposed by six nations, 



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prophet, and then break it and fight him, and how 
later the King of the North will attempt to destroy 
all religion from the earth. 

For the sake of brevity, time and space, we have The 
appended a list of references, to which we refer the Message 
reader for confirmation of all statements made, which for 
will well repay careful reading. Today 

In conclusion let us point out the lesson all should 
learn from this struggle on man's part to govern him- 
self and the world. It proves that man, as now con- 
stituted, is utterly unable to govern himself or live in 
peace with his neighbor. He must be policed in the 
village and in the city, or wherev^er found in any 
considerable numbers, likewise the nations of the 
earth must have their armies and navies to curb each 
other's selfishness. Men and nations alike are envi- 
ous, jealous, insatiable, constantly looking and striv- 
ing for new ends in the hope of finding that which 
will give them complete satisfaction, happiness and 
peace. In all these years, beginning with Nebuchad- 
nezzar, God has given man a free hand to work out 
his own salvation, or rather to show, if it is possible 
to show man, that he is unable to do so. Two thou- 
sand years ago, when Rome was in the height of its 
glory, God sent his son, Jesus Christ, who offered 
to be a King and show the world what a King should 
be like, and what a righteous government should be. 
His own people, with the sanction of Rome, crucified 
Him. Since then God has been silent, but through His 
spirit. He has created the church of Christ, which we 
are told, will in the end rule this and other worlds. 



In the lourlccnlh chapter of John, Christ tolJ 
His Disciples that he would go away, but return 
again, and in the twenty-fourth chapter of Matthew 
we are told the things this world will be doing just 
before His return, and in i Thes. 4, 13-1S, we are 
told what will happen to the people dwelling on the 
earth when He comes to take out of this world those 
who believe in Him. Therefore, the question for 
everyone to decide is: "What think ye of Christ?" 
Will you be on His side when He comes, or on the 
side of those who will be left behind to fight during 
the wars that are still to come, compared with which 
the present wars will be considered small. 

No ! No! God has no part in this war. For over 
two thousand five hundred years God has been silent 
so far as taking a hand in the government of this 
W'Orld is concerned. His only concern has been : 
"What think ye of Christ?" "Who say ye that 1 
am?" For six thousand years God has wanted a peo- 
ple v/ith whom Fie could have fellowship. He offered 
it first to all mankind In Adam, then to the Jews, from 
the time of Nebuchadnezzar to Christ, He let man 
rule himself, i. e., have his own way, and since Christ 
His offer has been to whosoever will, for the gospel 
of God today is "God so loved the world that He 
gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth 
in FFmi should not perish, but have everlasting life." 
John 3, 16. God Is now only seeking out of this 
world a people with whom he can later rule this and 
other worlds. Time and space will not permit of de- 



tails along this line of thought, nevertheless that is 
what God's word says. 

in the sixth chapter of Revelations, which, by tiie Final 
way, is a synopsis of the entire time from Nebuchad- Syiiopiis 
nezzar down to the end of man's rule on earth, we have of 
another picture of the four beasts representing the four Man's Rule 
world kingdoms. The first goes forth with a crown on on the 
his head and a bow in his hand, riding on a white Earth 
horse, conquering and to conquer. This is in harmony 
with the head of gold in the dream image in Daniel 2, 
and the lion with eagle's wings in Daniel 7. It is the 
splendid, glorious, and magnificent Babylonian King 
Nebuchadnezzar, conquering more through his showy 
magnificence than by his real strength. The second 
beast says, come and see. And we see a red horse 
(symbol of blood), and the rider has power to take 
peace from the earth. A great sword is given to him, 
that they should kill. This the Medes and Persians 
did, much more than the Kings of Babylon. 

The third beast said, come and see, and he beheld 
a black horse, the rider having a pair of balances in 
his hand, saying midst the four beasts (four gen- 
erals), "A measure of wheat for a penny and a 
measure of barley for a penny," and warning them 
not to hurt the oil and the wine. The black horse, 
the balances and the price named for food all speak 
of the want and famine which the conquests of Alex- 
ander the Great caused. 

The fourth beast said, come and see, and we see a 
pale horse (symbol of coming death), and his name 
that sat on him was Death and Hell, and power was 



given to him over a fourth part of the earth to kill 
with sword, with hunger and with death, and with 
the beasts of the earth. 

The Roman Empire was the most aggressive of the 
four first world kingdoms, covering about one-fourth 
of the earth, and wars have recurred there again and 
again, and, as suggested In the last few words of this 
verse, finally "with the beasts of the earth" nations 
beyond the original sphere of Rome, the revived 
Roman Empire will, with the other Kings, make for 
death and hell more than all the rest. 

The present war is a literal fulfilment of this proph- 
ecy. Not only the Kings of the old Roman Empire 
are at war, but Japan has been drawn in, and It Is the 
opinion of some that others must be drawn In. It is 
the final struggle of man to rule himself. Thus we see 
first a glorious kingdom. Second, a kingdom taking 
peace from the earth. Third, a kingdom causing want 
and famine. Fourth, a kingdom causing death and hell. 
Elere again we see a steady decline in governmental 
values, until It gets so bad that the Kings of the earth, 
the great men, the rich men, and chief captains, and 
the mighty men hide themselves in the dens and In the 
rocks of the mountains and cry unto the rocks and 
mountains to fall on them and hide them from the 
face of Him who sitteth on the throne and from the 
wrath of the Lamb, who is none other than the Lord 
Jesus Christ at the great battle of Armageddon. 

Such is the story of this old world for the past 
twenty-five hundred years, and for some years yet to 
come. We have only touched on one subject, /. e., 



Government on earth by man. If we should take up 
such prophecies as concern the Jews, the church, or 
the person of Jesus Christ, we would find the same un- 
erring accuracy in each. So accurate, in fact and detail, 
that every open mind must admit that none but God 
could have looked down through the ages and have 
seen the end from the beginning. 

If you are one of the many who have been care- 
less with regard to God and his plans, we hope and 
pray that this article may stir you to read your Bible 
and to inquire where you will stand when the great 
day of the Lord begins. 



P. S — The author will be pleased to answer, it possible, any 
question sent to him regarding God*s word, when accompanied 
with 2 cents in stamps for reply. 



Some References Regarding Prophecies 

1. Exhortation to heed prophecy, or the more sure 
word. 

2 Peter I, 19. 

2. Prophecy concerning the Image of Gold, Sil- 
ver, Brass, Iron and Clay. 

Daniel 2, 28 to 48. 

3. Prophecy concerning the four Beasts. 
Daniel 7, i to 28. Rev. 13, i and 2. 

4. Prophecy concerning Russia, the Assyrian, or 

King of the North. 

Ezekiel 38. Ezekiel 39, 1-14. 

Joel, 2nd chap., verse 20. 

5. Prophecy concerning the head of the Revived 
Roman Empire, or the Beast. 

Daniel 7, 24-26. Rev. 13, 3-1 1. 

Rev. 17, 8. Rev. 19, 19. 

6. Prophecy concerning the Anti-Christ or False 
Prophet. 

Dan. II, 36-39. 
Rev. 19, 20. 2 Thes. 2, 3-4, 8-9. 

Rev. 16, 13-16. Rev. 20, 10. 

7. Prophecy concerning the Second Coming of 
Christ. 

Rev. 19, 11-16. 
Matt. 24. John 14, 1-3. 

I Cor. 15, 51-52. I Thes. 4, 13-18. 

8. Prophecy concerning the Great Day of the 
Lord. 

Isa. 34, 1-8. Zack 12, 1-3, 9. 

Rev. 19, 19-21. 

9. God's Synopsis of the past 2,500 years and the 
years to come. 

Rev. 6. 



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